The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program has collected, analyzed, and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 300 surveys in over 90 countries.

New! DHS Contraceptive Calendar Tutorial
This tutorial is designed to help DHS data users understand the DHS Contraceptive Calendar, its history, how it is completed in an interview, how the data are stored in the Individual Recode (IR) datasets, uses of the calendar data, and how to analyze the data.Learn more >>

Calculating the Age of Children More Precisely
The calculation of children’s age has recently changed in DHS surveys. Get all of your questions answered about what changed, why the change happened, and how this might affect your analysis. Learn more

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The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program has collected, analyzed, and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 300 surveys in over 90 countries.

New Name, Same Quality. MEASURE DHS is now The DHS Program! Our new name reflects the broad range of activities we will undertake with USAID over the next 5 years, including a greater emphasis on capacity strengthening throughout the survey process. Read more about the new name and the new project>>

New MEASURE DHS mobile app for Windows Phones! The new MEASURE DHS app for Windows Phones provides indicator tables, charts, maps, and trend data from DHS surveys, as well as survey information, and quick links to survey-related publications. Please go to the Windows Phone Store today to download.